He's a former Office of Naval Intelligence/Defense Intelligence Agency/NSA
analyst. His career spanned 20 years.

In December 2005, he accused NSA and DIA of unconstitutionally wiretapping
US citizens. He got national attention, saying:

"Everyone at NSA knew what they were doing was illegal, because
it’s drilled into our heads over and over that it’s against NSA
policy, that you do not do that. The choice is to speak out and get
fired."

Bush administration officials maintained secrecy. The New York Times knew about but stayed silent.

In December 2005, that changed.Times writers James Risen and Eric
Lichtblau headlined "Bush Lets US Spy on Callers Without Courts."

"The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data
and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger
than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said."

"It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American
telecommunication system's main arteries, they said".

"As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic
surveillance without warrants, the NSA has gained the cooperation of
American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams
of domestic and international communications, the officials said."

"Under the provisions of the Intelligence Community
Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), I intend to report to Congress
probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an
intelligence officer with the National Security Agency (NSA) and with
the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)."

"These acts involve the Director of the National Security Agency,
the Deputies Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations, and the U.S.
Secretary of Defense."

"These probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts were conducted
via very highly sensitive intelligence programs and operations known
as Special Access Programs (SAP)s."

"I was a technical intelligence specialist dealing almost exclusively
with SAP programs and operations at both NSA and DIA."

"Due to the highly sensitive nature of these programs and operations,
I will require assurances from your committee that the staffers and/or
congressional members to participate retain the proper security clearances,
and also have the appropriate SAP cleared facilities available for these
discussions."

"Please inform me when you require my appearance on Capitol Hill
to conduct these discussions in relation to this ICWPA report."

"Over four months ago, on 16 December 2005,
I wrote to you requesting to report to the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence (SSCI) probable illegal conduct in the Intelligence Community
(IC) regarding Special Access Programs (SAP)s."

"I made this request under the provisions of the Intelligence
Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA). My concern was that
probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts were conducted while I was
an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency (NSA) and
with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)."

"I informed you that these acts involve the Director of the National
Security Agency, the US Air Force Deputies Chief of Staff for Air and
Space Operations, and the U.S. Secretary of Defense."

"To this date, I have not received a response
from you or the SSCI addressing my request to testify about these SAP
programs."

"In a letter addressed to me by NSA on 09 Jan ‘06 (letter provided),
of which NSA also provided you a copy, they asserted that neither you
nor any senator on the SSCI retains high enough security clearances
to hear about the intelligence work I performed in these very highly
classified programs and operations."

"NSA’s assertion did not appear credible to me, considering
I was an intelligence officer and the ICWPA suggests that the congressional
intelligence committees are responsible for intelligence oversight."

"The press has suggested that the Senate Armed
Services Committee may be the proper place for me to testify about the
SAP intelligence misconduct that I would like to report. Other rumors
circulated that no one in congress is allowed access to this information."

"One news article said that the SSCI Vice Chair admitted that
the intelligence committee did not have jurisdiction. In their letter,
NSA did not make mention of any other congressional committee that was
cleared."

"The staff of the HPSCI believes that I fall into a “gray”
area between intelligence and military special programs."

"As the responsible committee for intelligence in the Senate,
I have been waiting for your directions on this matter. If another committee
is the proper place for me to testify, I believe it is your responsibility
to forward my request to that committee and keep me informed of the
process."

"You are also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
and, as such, should know if SAP related intelligence programs fall
within the jurisdiction of intelligence and/or the military committees."

"If the SSCI is indeed the proper place for me to convey this
intelligence related misconduct, I likewise believe it is your responsibility
to inform me of such. This, of course, has not been the case."

"In the absence of any direction, I recently have been researching
this question of jurisdiction. In doing so, I have stumbled upon a directive
that seems to address the question of who in congress is cleared to
know about these SAP programs."

"No mention is specifically made in regard to the considerable
intelligence missions associated with these SAPs."

"Nonetheless, with this Title 10 directive clearly addressing
congressional oversight of SAPs, and in the absence of any direction
from the SSCI committee you chair, I have decided to direct all further
intelligence related inquires and requests that involve the SAP related
ICWPA concern I need to report, to the aforementioned alternate committees."

"The very same request I made of you and the SSCI over four months
ago, I am now making to these alternate committees. They will be receiving
letters from me in conjunction with this letter to you."

"As a Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) officer, it is continually
drilled into us that the very first law chiseled in the SIGINT equivalent
of the Ten Commandments (USSID-18) is that Thou shall not spy on American
persons without a court order from FISA."

"This law is continually drilled into each NSA intelligence officer
throughout his or her career. The very people that lead the National
Security Agency have violated this holy edict of SIGINT."

"In addition to knowing this fundamental commandment of not violating
the civil rights of Americans, intelligence officers are required to
take an oath to protect the United States Constitution from enemies
both foreign and domestic."

"It is with my oath as a US intelligence officer weighing heavy
on my mind that I wish to report to congress acts that I believe are
unlawful and unconstitutional."

"The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when
our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed
into a police state."

On June 19, BFP "broke the news on" NSA targeting political
candidates. Included were "elected officials, federal judges, law
firms and activists, including candidate Barack Obama."

Tice revealed it. Edmonds called his revelations a "bombshell."
He went on record with new information. He named "official culprits
involved."

He explained how NSA "targets, sucks-in, stores and analyzes
illegally obtained content from the masses in the United States."

"He revealed for the first time the NSA Deep State involved in
the targeting and wiretapping of US elected officials, political candidates,
federal judges," and many others.

Candidate Obama's phone was tapped. It was done without his knowledge.
It was done lawlessly. He knows but won't say.

Major media scoundrels deny Tice a proper platform. When interviewed,
he's prohibited from explaining this type information. MSNBC censored
him. They did so moments before air time.

Following his censored interview, Tice told BFP:

"When they were placing the ear-phone in my ear with less than
ten minutes left till my air time, the producer in New York said that
their lawyers were discussing the material, and at this time, they did
not want me to mention anything about the NSA wiretaps against all the
people and organizations that I mentioned."

"That is how it went down. I did say on the air that I know it
is much worse and would like to talk about that some time."